Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:53:06 +0100 | From | Maciej Szmigiero <> | Subject | Re: [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip |
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W dniu 01.11.2010 13:35, Jonathan Cameron pisze: > On 10/28/10 21:52, Maciej Szmigiero wrote: >> [W1] a driver for DS2405 chip >> >> This is a driver for DS2405 1-wire single-channel addressable switch / PIO. >> DS2405 can also work as single-channel binary remote sensor. > Perhaps handle this as a gpio chip? (be it a fairly limited one) > To my mind it would make it more generally useful...
I think the GPIO infrastructure is meant for on-system GPIOs, where 1-wire devices are mostly used for remote data acquisition. That's probably why w1_therm (for 1-wire thermometers) is not integrated with HWMON subsystem.
Maciej Szmigiero
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